kinda

Kind of; somewhat.colloquialnot-comparable

• I kinda hafta do this right now.
• That’s kinda funny.

Contraction of kind + of.abbreviationalt-ofcolloquial

• Carmiesha had never once busted him in a lie, and she never had no kinda drama with him and no other chick. She damn sure couldn't say that for Dre.
• What kinda music do ya want ta play? Do ya want volume or somethin' more subtle?

Yes in some respects but no in other respects.

• "Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."

A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.

• In the wild, when a baboon called a kinda pairs with a chacma or yellow baboon, their progeny is still a baboon — but it's a hybrid of interest to Society grantees Jane Phillips-Conroy and Clifford Jolly, who are tracking gene flow in Zambi